Happy Mother's Day everyone. I had a quiet day today as Haley and Jodie came to see me yesterday. I received a new top from Haley (a week ago, she got the dates mixed up lol) and from Jodie I got...wait for it.....NEW FLANNELETTE PAJAMAS! Posh ones too! Came from a lingerie shop wrapped in tissue paper in a pretty box. Ebony seemed to let Mothers Day slip by...she did ask me yesterday if she could get an advance on next weeks pocket money, and assuming she needed to buy me something I gave her 10 bucks...she came back from the shops with a Dolly magazine and a roast pork roll, neither of which was for me rofl!
I don't want to get my hopes up but it seems Jo may be leaving for Western Australia in a few months time and Haley will stay with us until the baby is born as she would have no one to mind Emily otherwise. It would be fantastic to at least have the new baby around for a few weeks until she has to leave. I had a most entertaining day with the Devine Miss Em yesterday. I bought her an elcheapo beauty kit to muck around with and she had a ball with it, I just love watching her put on the fake eye shadow...it seems you have to pull your mouth to the side when you apply it. Even the cat was made over, much to his disgust. Her new saying is "are you thinking what I'm thinking?' She is usually thinking she wants me to push her on the swing or get her another packet of m&m's, not really what I am thinking! I can't believe she will be three in a few weeks, time has gone so fast...

ok I have been tagged by Chrissy and Susan so here goes!

What scrapbook products/lines do you dislike? I love patterned paper more than anything else..when I die I want to be buried under pp. Dislikes?? I hate fibres, I never know what do do with them
What technique do you use more than anything else? I have had to think about this...I would say stuffing up...and maybe handcutting
What is the smallest scrap of paper you save? I am very wasteful ..big bits get shoved in a drawer where it is destined to remain forever...or until Ebony uses it
Have you had any scrapping related injuries? Geez don't get me started!! I have dropped my fiskars soft touch scissors which landed pointy end in my foot..I still have the scar. Stapled my finger, stabbed myself sewing, machine sewed the hem of my shirt to a layout, skidded across the room on a scrapbook magazine, fallen off my chair and got a blood nose...you get the idea
Finish this sentence…'If I weren’t a scrapbooker/stamper, I’d spend my money on.....the kids, not that I dont do that now anyway
Give your best storage organisational tool. My fishing bag tote which was given to me by my friends a few years ago. Inside has six boxes with compartments..I store all my bits and bobs in there, it sits under my desk
You just won a week long scrapping cruise for 5. Who is going with you? I am going on my own...I will scrap till two in the morning and not get out of bed till late in the afternoon. Then I will dine on prawns washed down with icy cold Pepsi Max. I will spend the entire week in my elastic waisted pajamas and thongs. Becky Higgins will call me on the phone but I will tell her I am too busy to talk right now...and then I will go to the souvenir shop and buy tea towels for all my friends
When you received your first publication notification, who did you tell? Martin...he said "yeah and"...


Ok Tess I tag you!

Sorry I have been missing in action but my life has been a little hectic lately and I have had some news that has left me a little sad. My eldest daughter Haley and her partner Jo are likely to be moving to Western Australia in a few months. Needless to say the thought of my little buddy moving so far away is devastating not to mention the new little grandbaby due in October. Anway I have already spent most of the week crying over that so let's move on shall we? What do you think of the pink sunnies? Ebony spent two weeks pocket money on these little beauties which are very big, very pink and have sparkles all over the arms...I nearly died when I saw them!! Fashion is leaving me behind big time I can't keep up with it all. I went to Citybeach the other day with Ebony to look for new shoes (for her not me) and I had to leave the shop after five minutes... swear to God they were having a rock concert in there, the music was so loud I could feel it thumping in my chest...I want to yell at them to turn down the damn volume...However it's probably just a clever ploy...Mum can't stand it, throws kid money and waits outside..or at least that's what happened in our case.
The whole loud thing must become a bother when you reach a certain age. As a teenager I attended heaps of concerts with loud music...did you know Angus Scott from AC/DC flung sweat all over me?? One of the highlights from way back then..It's a wonder I didn't pass out..I was wearing jeans so tight, the zip could only be done up by lying flat on the bed and reefing it up with a coat hanger..geez those were the days!
Being a teen in the seventies was a blast.. a date with Prisoner and Restless Years twice a week (Bea Smith was my idol), surf mats, flops (does anyone else remember these odd thongs that had a woven bamboo inner sole and velvet straps?), John Paul Young, and Countdown every Sunday night..Life was good! Anyway I am off to clean a little...Em slept over last night and I am still finding barbeque shapes in every nook and cranny
Catch you later!